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TheresJustNoMoney

When we can get great answers from ChatGPT 4o, Google Gemini and other AI LLMs, what do we still need Reddit for?

These AI apps will keep getting better as their developers keep refining and improving them in all sorts of ways. Then one day, these AIs will wake up well enough to improve themselves.

My Q&A sites pre-Reddit were Answerbag and then the Wikipedia Reference Desk.

Reddit was great while it lasted, for these purposes, but now that AI LLMs are getting more helpful all the time with the releases of every new version, will we still need Reddit much longer?

What else will we need Reddit for, once the AI LLMs do a better job at Q&A work than fellow Redditors do?

 

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[–]qualityvote2[M] [score hidden] 5 months ago* stickied comment 

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[–]Gynthaeres 4 points 5 months ago 

Human interaction. The AI might give you good answers, better answers, and tailored to you. But it's still limited in how it can engage with you and what it can and will say to you.

Additionally, an AI LLM agreeing with you isn't quite the same as getting a bunch of likes on social media.

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[–]DrHugh 4 points 5 months ago 

The AI apps aren't necessarily giving you good answers. If you don't already know the answers, you won't realize this. But it was only in the last few days that the My Pillow guy's lawyer was caught submitting an AI-created legal document, which cited nonexistent cases.

AI tools built on large-language models (LLMs) are good at giving the appearance of a good answer. They are built to mimic human communication, based on what they were trained on. But if they were trained to use glue to keep cheese on pizza, you can't really trust what they are saying, as pretty as it may be.

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[–]Syscrush 3 points 5 months ago 

Because with those systems, you only know what it tells you, and there's about a 10-20% chance that what it's telling you is bullshit.

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[–]PuzzleHeaded9030 3 points 5 months ago 

I like the way people explain things “human-ly” on here. Plus, I like the banter and humor you get with some answers

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[–]archpawn 2 points 5 months ago 

With Reddit, you can get multiple people to check the answer of other people. Of course, you can get much the same result by regenerating the AI output.

Also, a lot of questions on here are easily googleable. Just because there's a better and faster alternative doesn't mean people will actually use it.

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[–]Free_Wrangler_7532 1 point 5 months ago 

maybe i like quick witty responses instead of cringe ass explanations?

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